OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu's good design

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Aug 19, 2003
• 497 views

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:48:46PM +0000, Al Getz wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> Might be worth mentioning a few good points too...
> 
> 1.  Namespaces (quite versatile)

And yet still not quite good enough (tho with Matt Lewis's changes I might be
proven wrong, i dont remember what he did exactly or what version of Eu
has/will have the changes).

> 2.  Ability to call virtual functions

I don't see how that can be done (at best merely emulated via routine ids).

> 3.  Sequences

Eu isnt the only language with sequences. Sequences are a big feature of the
language tho, interestingly enough ... use them to emulate practically
everything!

> 
> I've heard that there are two kinds of programmers,
> those that like sequences and those that dont, and 
> for the same reasons with different motivations.
> Sequences are both versatile and problematic.
> Depending on which you like/dislike about sequences
> decides whether you like or dislike Eu.

True.

> 
> If people spent more time building libraries then argueing
> about the problems they'd have more accomplished also 

Also true.

> 
> Take care for now,
> Al
> 

jbrown

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